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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- CRN Digital Talk Radio (CRN), where the Best Talk Radio Is On TV, today announced plans to launch "The Sally Jesse Raphael Show" on Monday, November 19, 2007. Launched by radio veteran Michael J. Horn in 1983, CRN Digital Talk Radio (AKA Cable Radio Network) is the only 24-hour audio service bringing the best in talk radio to cable television. Focusing on real life issues, love, work, relationships and many of today's current events, "The Sally Jessy Raphael Show" will air weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. PT and 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET on CRN 6.
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The talk show did not originate over night, at one time, or in one place. It developed out of forty years of television practice and antecedent talk traditions from radio, Chatauqua, vaudeville and popular theater. In defining the talk show it is useful to distinguish between "television talk" (unscripted presentational address) and "talk shows"--shows organized principally around talk. "Television talk" represents all the unscripted forms of conversation and direct address to the audience that have been present on television from the beginning. This kind of "live," unscripted talk is one of the basic things that distinguishes television from film, photography, the record and book industries. Television talk is almost always anchored or framed by an announcer or host figure, and may be defined, in Erving Goffman's terms, as "fresh talk," that is, talk that appears to be generated word by word and in a spontaneous manner.
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Frisby, C. M. & Weigold, M. F. (1994, August) Gratification's of talk: Esteem & affect related consequences of viewing television talk shows. A manuscript presented to the Mass Communication and Society Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Convention, Atlanta, GA.
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Late-night talk shows prepare to return to television in January despite an ongoing strike by the Writers Guild of America. Monologues and interviews will be greatly improvised. Comedian David Letterman, who owns his show, is seeking an interim deal with the guild.
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